Filing device.



LH. WAGNER. FILING DEVICE. APPLICATION HLED Jun 23, um.

1,275,508. I Patented Aug. 13, 1918.

JOHN HWHGNER UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

iTOHN WA N R, 0F AsPmwALL, PENNSYLVANIA.

. FILING DEVICE.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN H. WAGNER, a citizen of the United States of, America, residing at Aspinwall, .in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Filing Devices, of which the following is a specification. V

This invention relates to certain improvements in filing devices and has relation more particularly to a device of this general character especially designed and adapted for use in connection with sheet music, periodicals, and the like and it is an object of the invention to provide novel and improved means whereby the sheets or the like may be assembled in volume form in order to eliminate an indiscriminate scattering of the same about the premises It is also an object of the invention to provide a filing device having novel and im proved means whereby the individual parcel may be readily and conveniently applied or removed independently of the remainder.

The invention consists in the details of construction and in the combination and arrangement of the several parts of my improved filing device whereby certain important advantages are attained and the device is rendered simpler, less expensive, and otherwise more convenient and advantageous for use, all as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

The novel features of the invention will hereinafter be definitely claimed.

In order that my invention may be the better understood I will now proceed to describe the same with reference to the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure 1 is a view in perspective, with a portion broken away, of a filing device constructed in accordance with an embodiment of my invention;

Fig. 2 is an enlarged fragmentary view in perspective illustrating an operative connection between an insert and a sheet as included in Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary view in perspec tive illustrating an embodiment of my invention in connection with a periodical.

As is particularly illustrated in Fig. 1, of the accompanying drawings the covers 1 are connected to the back strips 2 by the fabric or other flexible strips 3, so that the covers 1 can be readily and conveniently opened to assume substantially a fiat position one rela- Specifieation of Letters'lPatent.

tive to the other; ,The back strips 1, are also prov ded with the longitudinally spaced openings t,-.adapted to register with suitable openingsfi, produced in; each of the inserts 6. The inserts 6 each comprises an elongated strip of flat material of a configuration andudimension substantially. the

. samei-as the back strips 3 and is adapted to .forth in Figs. 1 and 2, each of the inserts 6,

coacts with a single sheet 9 and said insert and sheet are substantially the same thickness. At a predetermined distance inwardly of each end the insert 6, is provided with a tab 10, having its terminal portions secured to the opposite faces of the insert 6 whereby a loop 11, is afforded in advance of the insert and through which is directed the wire 12, or other elongated pliable member. An

end portion of the member 12, is returned as at 14, and directed through a loop 15, afforded by the tab 16, secured to the inner marginal portion of the sheet '9 in the same manner as set forth relative to the tab 10. By this arrangement the sheet 9 may be easily and readily engaged with the insert and it will also be understood that the tabs 10 and 16, which are formed preferably of cloth, afford a degree of flexibility and durability which would not be present with the use of wire or the like alone.

In Fig. 3 I disclose a form of my invention adapted for use in connection with a periodical and wherein the returned portion 14 of the wire or the like is directed through a loop 15 afforded by the tab 16 having its terminal portions disposed inwardly of the periodical through the back thereof and suitably secured to the opposed faces of the central sheets of the periodical. In this form of invention it is also to be noted that the insert '6" is of a thickness substantially equal to the thickness of the periodical.

From the foregoing description, it is thought to be obvious that a filing device constructed in accordance with an embodi- Patented Augie, 1918.

Application filed July 23, 1917. Serial No. 182,225.

ment of my invention is of an extremely simple and comparatlvely inexpensive nature and is particularly well adapted for use by reason of the convenience and facility with which it may be employed, andit will also be obvious that my invention is snsceptlble of some change and modification without material departure: from the prin ciple and scope thereof, and for this reason I do not wish to be'und'erstood aslimiting myself to the precise arrangement and I claim: r

A filingdevice comprising, in combination, an insert, a flexible member extending beyond a margin of the insert, a sheet, a flexible loop extending beyond a margin of the sheet, and a member engaged with one ofthe" loops and insertible in these'con'd loop for engaging the sheet with the insert.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the presence of two witnesses,

' J-(DHN H; WAGNER. WVitnesses:

AEBERTN. BALKEY, JAMES MEYER.-

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